Bryant Jerel Hickcox allegedly called his 2-year-old cousin "the devil" after throwing him into oncoming heavy traffic about 9 p.m. Friday in southeast Colorado Springs, his arrest documents show.
The 30-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder and attempted child abuse resulting in death, both felonies, court records show.
Timothy Hickcox, the boy's father, wrote on Facebook about 3:20 a.m. Saturday that his son's "drunken" cousin kidnapped him "and threw him in front of driving cars" on the busy street. The toddler's name is Ben, Hickcox wrote in the post next to a photo of the diapered child sitting in a hospital bed, his arm covered in scrapes.
"Luckily every car stopped so that Ben
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